learning structures are increasingly being used at every grade level, in all subjects, and in all kinds of schools and communities.
Based on the discussion above, I intend to know how the use of one of cooperative learning structures called RoundRobin can improve student’s speaking
skill. In this case I want to reveal that cooperative learning structure namely RoundRobin can improve the students’ speaking skills which consist of six aspects
such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, comprehension, fluency and content. Those six aspects of speaking skill would be improved through some treatments when
doing the research. Grammar is related to the tense which is used in pre- and post-test. In
improving the students’ vocabulary, I use some questions and interesting topic to stimulate them in getting new vocabularies. For improving pronunciation and fluency
of the students, I teach them how to pronounce some words correctly and ask them to tell some sentences related to the given topic fluently. At the last stage, I ask the
students to convey their opinion related to the given topic orally. That is to find out whether their answers are comprehensible or not. If their answers are comprehensible,
so they have a good task in speaking. In short, to find out the improving of using cooperative learning structure RoundRobin teaching speaking, I analyze those six
aspects of speaking skills of the students.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
I choose the topic “The use of RoundRobin structure to improve the student’s speaking skill” for the following reasons:
First , speaking is one of language skills that the students have to master. In
Junior High school, students begin to understand the importance of mastering English in communication. Good speaking can make their communication better in the real
social life. Second
, English teaching in school is usually conducting using conventional methods. In conventional method, the role of the teacher is very dominant. Students
only listen and repeat what the teacher says. This method is really boring and it is usually less effective. One way that teacher can do to solve this problem is by using
another method to teach the students to make them more active and understand about the material. Mostly students like do new method, therefore they would enjoy and
interested when learning process takes place. Third,
generally, students in every level of education get problems in learning English as a foreign language, especially learning English speaking. It is because
speaking is one of the difficult skills in English. Teacher needs an interesting media and technique to motivate and encourage them in learning speaking English. By this
research I intend to reveal that there is an alternative way to improve the students’ speaking skill, which is by using RoundRobin structure.
Finally , it is to describe whether using RoundRobin structure can improve
students’ speaking skill which consists of six aspects, they are grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, pronunciation, fluency, and task. The improvement of using
RoundRobin structure in teaching speaking can be checked by analyzing students’ scores in pre-test and post-tests. If the students’ scores in post-test are higher than that
in pre-test, it could be concluded that RoundRobin structure can be used to improve the students’ speaking skills.
Actually there are so many methods that could be used in teaching speaking, but I choose Kagan’s Cooperative Learning Structure namely RoundRobin for the
following reasons: 1.
RoundRobin can help students to develop speaking skill such as pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, fluency and content by practicing and drilling the students
in turn. 2.
In RoundRobin, all of the students must say something or must give opinion about something, it would increase students’ oral communication especially in
English. Students will be more confident to speak in front of people. Students will not feel shy when conveying their ideas.
3. By using RoundRobin, students can develop their social skills. RoundRobin
requires students to cooperate with other students. Therefore, students learn how to communicate with others.
4. The author hopes that this research can give an alternative way for teachers to
teach English, especially in increasing speaking ability. By using this method, the teaching learning process is expected to be successful.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
